Talk:Plastic surgery

I had re-written some of this Wikipedia article months ago, as now imported there remain many errors. I will try to correct it and fill it out. Although I am not a plastic surgeon, I am otherwise intimately acquainted with the field, having served as a consultive pediatric otolaryngologist for internationally known departments of plastic and reconstructive surgery and being both widely read and personally tutored by authors of major textbooks and medical articles in the peer reviewed literature in PLastic Surgery. In Surgery, unlike many other fields, actual operating room experience and discussion with surgeons who are authorative in the field is traditionally important, and although scholarship is very important, an understanding of surgery derived strictly from reading is generally misleading. My own contributions to that literature have been pretty much confined to airway management. I discuss my qualifications, because I would appreciate that subsequent authors and editors do not arbitrarily modify the text unless sure that they have a more fundamental experience and understanding of the field, but instead discuss criticisms first here on the talk page. When I say "modify the text", I certainly do not mean that editing of language is not welcomed, I mean that if there is a basic disagreement with the style or definitions that the history pages show I have written, that these be discussed first. Nancy Sculerati MD 07:47, 26 February 2007 (CST)